'Liverpool's Alexander Isak plan could now be accelerated — I saw moment Arne Slot will love'

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For Alexander Isak, getting off the mark for Liverpool in his second game in red will have been a relief as much as anything.

Though it was only against Southampton and in the Carabao Cup third round, Isak has got the monkey off his back.

Against Atletico Madrid, Isak didn’t score in his 58 minutes on the field but did link nicely with his teammates.

Against Southampton, he scored, but didn’t show quite so much of the other side of his game.

Alexander Isak celebrates opening the scoring against Southampton with his first goal for Liverpool.

"It was good to get back out there and score my first goal here at Anfield," Isak told ITV Sport post-match.

Instinctively, he created two big chances for himself a week later.

One of those came from funnelling a Southampton player down an alley where he was forced into conceding the ball — the exact kind of clever defensive play that Slot said a few weeks ago would determine how successful Isak is

He isn't yet able to play 90 minutes and we might not see the best of him until near the end of the calendar year, given he has been out for so long.

At half-time, Isak did shuttles of the Anfield pitch — another reminder that he still needs to get his running in and improve his match sharpness